I was going to go to bed, I am so exhausted, but thought I’d stop just to see what was happening today.
OMG! I am laughing so hard tears are streaming down my face. I’m forwarding this to everyone! The people who will laugh the hardest are to ones who know just how OCD I am about wrapping presents. They are going to fall on the floor!!

I tell you what, this would be funny to anyone, but speaking as a New Yorker, there is not only of us alive who doesn;t relate to the rhythm of this woman and what pisses her off!! Thank you Upps! Oh, sister, did I need this today!

socal, forget palin, I thought their clamor about going further right to Win showed some real cognitive dissonnance. I hope they do that in 2016. Yeah, give us Rick Santorum or something and, if Hillary runs, she won’t even have to leave the house to win.

As a union member I hope all the states pass the right to work laws. I do not want to pay dues to the political arm of the Dem party for no reason at all. I don’t get big bucks, that’s for sure. My benefits are comparable to others in private markets. The main difference is I HAD to join the union to get my job. They did offer something called “fair share” but it was the exact same deduction as union dues. I was informed that over 95% of the employees are with the union and that if I didn’t join I would stick out as one of the few who were union busting…

I joined and pay them for no reason. AFSCME is one of the better ones, at least. They backed Hillary big time in 2008 after they polled the members and found bo had less support. Since then though they’ve supported bo and reading their convoluted logic as to why and their total political propaganda support for him – just makes me nuts.

I don’t want to be in this union and if I want to keep my job I have to be.

It is a joke. They gave away all my real benefits long ago – my retirement plan is pitiful. Everything good about the job is covered under Federal and State labor laws – overtime pay, no discrimination based on sex, etc.

Those Michigan workers are nothing more than thugs. Rioting and creating civil disobedience is ignorant in a time of record unemployment. They should be glad they have jobs and shut the hell up and certainly not be out there breaking the law and attacking people.

JERKS. They will not get any sympathy for their actions. The states with Right to Work have better work conditions and companies stay in business. Go figure…

Aunt Chippy is a character. Not sure if she is just acting for the most part or if she is really like that. It seems staged for Kimmel. The San Gennaro one especially. The reaction to the food guy seemed planned.

Eh I’ve been union and I’ve been management, so I have no problem flat out saying that both sides know fully well how to Blow Goats when they want to.

I just don’t think it benefits them to behave this way. I think that’s what tanked them in Wisconsin, people don’t like feeling intimidated and others feel offended. I don’t know the answer, but surely they could find better spokespersons than someobody who has Thug written all over his face. That is all.

btw: the area of Florida I decided on this week as most likely place to move was Edgewater. I told my daughter and shared pics of some places I was considering and boom a tornado hit 2 miles from a house I as considering. It snows in NEPA but houses don’t fly…

foxy, all Hillary’s ‘competition’ will all be inside her own party. All the misogynists and Clinton-haters in the party haven’t gone away. Just watch, they’ll deprive her of the nomination yet again. Maybe they’ll throw up a minority woman to be the anti-Clinton candidate so they can’t be accused of sexism. Just today, a most annoying ‘bot said Solis Doyle (Labor Secty.) would be a good nominee and winner, and he was afraid Hillary had “too much baggage.” Like anyone’s heard of the Lab. Secty., FCS!

Yeah she’s got “baggage”. It’s called experience. And the highest approval numbers of any of the DC Clowns. That’s baggage. Listen, I think the moderate republicans who are repulsed at the far right will vote for her. I think women will vote for her. And I think seniors will vote for her. And I Know hispanics adored her, as did asians and blacks before Obama pretended she was racist so he could get some votes.

I think that could be because when times are great and everyone is doing well, RTW isn’t a thought. Because if I do well and you do well, I’m happy and you’re happy. But when times are rough the idea of RTW becomes more attractive to areas that aren’t doing well and need to attact businesses which are all to happy to relocate there and increase their badly needed tax base. It’s kind of like that.

Let’s look at it case by case, in this case, Detroit. It’s a ghost town now. A shithole. A dump. Highest unemployment rate in the country. No tax base. It’s kind of wierd to imagine unions fighting for………….what again?

While unions have been greedy gavonnes and their executives have been as rapacious as their corporate counterparts, they did serve a purpose and without them, people could still be working in buildings without fire exits.

It would be too easy to blame the state of manufacturing in America on unions (and they do deserve their share of it), but the corporate execs really killed it.

Sophie, there are “stats” from the unions and there are stats from the anti-union forces to back up both versions. It is complicated by the fact that many of them were not right to work until recently. The long term states provide more reliable data.

Oh hey I never deny that those two sides take chances apiece fucking everything up! It’s a We-They thing right along. I guess my only point is it seems kind of silly to be hanging out in a place like Detroit where there aren’t going to be ANY jobs and demanding that what few jobs there might be –like maybe— must be Union jobs. When you definitely have nothing to offer anybody and definitely have no cards whatsover, and when you are looking at a completely devasated shithole, it might be nice not to act like a lowlife asshole thug fromm the Mob is all I’m saying.

If you say there will be jobs My Way or No Jobs, which do you think is going to happen? If they see that video,and if that’s the climate, how many companies do we think would even consider going there?